One of North Carolina’s Last Unprotected Barrier Islands to be Conserved Conservation groups, family landowners rally to conserve Hutaff Island Hutaff Island, one of North Carolina’s last privately owned [...]
Giving Bees and Butterflies a Hand By Denise Patterson, reprinted with permission from Coastal Review Online (March 2015) [Ed. note: In celebration of PollinatorPalooza, April 12-17, 2021, we are [...]
The historic range of Swallow-tailed kites once included much of the Southeast including NC and up the Mississippi River to as far north as Minnesota, and [...]
On Friday February 26, 2021, the Coastal Land Trust transfered almost 183 acres of pine woodlands, pocosin wetlands, and bottomland hardwood forest to the US Forest Service - the [...]
Controlled fire helps maintain longleaf pine forests by keeping the understory open and allowing more sunlight to reach the forest floor. Controlled fires are necessary to mimic [...]
On Thursday, December 3, 2020, the Coastal Land Trust saved a beautiful high bluff on the Tar River, in Pitt County. The 10.9-acre conservation easement was donated to the [...]
GOOD NEWS FOR SALMON CREEK STATE NATURAL AREA AND SITE X MORE LAND SET ASIDE FOR CONSERVATION The Coastal Land Trust protected almost 300 acres on the Chowan River [...]
Coastal Land Trust Announces Acquisition of Inholdings at Springer’s Point Preserve The Coastal Land Trust today announced the bargain sale donation of almost two acres of private land holdings [...]
GOOD NEWS FOR THE CROATAN AS MORE LANDS SET ASIDE FOR CONSERVATION In the midst of adopting teleworking technologies to comply with the Governor’s executive order in response to [...]
FOURTH CONSERVATION PROJECT NEAR THE CROATAN COMPLETED! The Coastal Land Trust, which received $7.3 million in April 2018 as part of the Havelock bypass settlement, has completed its fourth [...]